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Investigative Reporting in Iowa

Iowa's Quad-Cities area in eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois competes with neighboring cities and states for tourism. But available funds for its convention and visitors bureau have been cut, creating a tough challenge, this Quad-City Times report shows.

Parents increasingly are borrowing money to finance their children's college education, despite warnings about such a practice, the Des Moines Register reports in a story that includes data searches and comments from parents who do this.